six-gnome-press-conan-first-editions
Lot 393
Six Gnome Press Conan First Editions
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
To include:

Robert E. Howard. CONAN THE CONQUERER. New York: The Gnome Press, Inc., 1950. First Printing stated. Hardcover. Red cloth-covered boards with dark blue lettering on cover and spine, color pictorial map endpapers; in orange illustrated dust jacket. 8vo; 255pp.

Robert E. Howard. THE SWORD OF CONAN. New York: The Gnome Press, Inc., 1952. First Printing stated. Hardcover. Maroon cloth-covered boards with black lettering on cover and spine, color pictorial map endpapers; in green illustrated dust jacket. 8vo; 251pp.

Robert E. Howard. KING CONAN. New York: The Gnome Press, Inc., 1953. First Printing stated. Red cloth-covered boards with black lettering on cover and spine, color pictorial map endpapers; in pink illustrated dust jacket. 8vo; 255pp.

Robert E. Howard. CONAN THE BARBARIAN. New York: The Gnome Press, Inc., 1954. First Edition stated. Red cloth-covered boards with black lettering on cover and spine; in yellow illustrated dust jacket. 8vo; 224pp.

Robert E. Howard and L. Sprague de Camp. TALES OF CONAN. New York: The Gnome Press, Inc., 1955. First Edition stated. Light grey cloth-covered boards with red lettering on cover and spine; in white illustrated dust jacket. 8vo; 219pp.

Bjorn Nyberg and L. Sprague de Camp. RETURN OF CONAN. New York: The Gnome Press, Inc., 1957. First Printing stated. Red cloth-covered boards with black lettering on cover and spine; in white illustrated dust jacket. 8vo; 191pp.

From the Collection of the late Richard J. Anderson, Bronx, New York

Includes six of the seven novels in the series. The first five books in the Gnome Press Conan series collected Robert E. Howard's original stories from the 1930s in hardcover for the first time.

All about good in good jackets. Boards with light edgewear and marks, corners and head and tail of spines rubbed, occasional staining and soiling, many with slight separation from textblock yet bindings still very sturdy; pages unmarked but with foxing, light to heavy toning, some staining and soiling especially at top edges, endpapers with foxing and toning with occasional staining; several volumes with damp stains; jackets with edgewear, foxing, toning, light offsetting, tears and small losses, (1) with light bubbling at spine, all unclipped with prices intact.